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Showerthoughts

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A "Showerthought" is a simple term used to describe the thoughts that pop into your head while you're doing everyday things like taking a shower, driving, or just daydreaming. The most popular seem to be lighthearted, clever little truths, hidden in daily life.

Here are some examples to inspire your own showerthoughts: 1

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[–] Skua@kbin.earth 36 points 2 weeks ago (5 children)

The weirdest experience I've had with language mixups so far is that my brain apparently seems to conflate anything not English. English is my first language, and I used to be able to speak German pretty well — not fluently, but well enough to hold a fairly natural conversation. I have unfortunately let it slip away now. I'm now learning a different language and for some reason whenever I don't know a word for something but I do remember the German one, my brain just picks the German one. It's quite frustrating.

[–] Tujio@lemmy.world 22 points 2 weeks ago

Same. If somebody speaks to me in Spanish, half the time I react by speaking German.

[–] TranquilTurbulence@lemmy.zip 9 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

Yeah, I have that too. It feels like in my brain there's a big box for my native tongue, and a smaller box all the foreign languages I don't really use that much.

[–] IndiBrony@lemmy.world 6 points 2 weeks ago

Ja, ich liebe when I'm busy talking in one language aber words von the other language ich know keep sneaking in.

[–] vinnymac@lemmy.world 4 points 2 weeks ago

Weirdly that sounds identical to many of the hallucinations that newer LLMs are making.

[–] MadBob@feddit.nl 1 points 1 week ago

That's herkenbaar!